Johnny Majors!! Copied from a old news article
“The genesis of the MCHS-Huntland rivalry.” It was a rivalry between Moore County High in Lynchburg and Huntland that began in 1949 when Majors and Rogers were freshmen at Moore County.
Huntland hadn’t had a football team in over 20 years and hired Shirley Majors, John’s dad, in the summer of 1949 to be its coach and build the program. Shirley, who had previously coached at Moore County for three years, left his family in Lynchburg and commuted back and forth to Huntland, a 22-mile drive, during the season.
When the two teams met that year, the Huntland Hornets led by two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. A desperate Moore County coach replaced his senior tailback with freshman tailback (John Majors). What happened was shocking!
Majors scored on three spectacular runs on the Raiders’ next three possessions to lift Moore County to the victory.
“It was evident a superstar was born,” wrote Rogers, who didn’t play because of a broken leg he suffered before the start of the season, but he watched the game from the sidelines.
On the other side of the field, an upset Shirley Majors was heard to say, “This will be the last time a son of mine beats me.” And he moved his entire family to Huntland the next summer.
“This upset the diehard MCHS supporters, since the Majors family had been Moore County residents for generations,” wrote Rogers in his column. “Many considered Shirley Majors a traitor to his hometown and county.”